Friday 23rd June marked International Women in Engineering Day and in honour of this day, we've released our final episode of Season 1 of the Chai & Chat Engineering podcast.

In this episode we reflect on our journey over the past 18 months, along with sharing the highlights from conversations we’ve had with all the incredible women in Season 1. We talk about everything from fashion, cultural backgrounds, how to follow your passions, build confidence to building bridges, quite literally, and how we can support parents to stay in the industry when juggling the demands of bringing up young children. 

Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this journey so far, especially to those women who have taken part, we really appreciate you. We are excited to see where the future takes us, we will be busy planning Season 2 over the summer, so keep your eyes peeled later on in the year!

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Anusha is a Senior Director for Resilient Cities and UK Climate Adaptation Leader at Arcadis. Currently she is seconded to EKFB consortium of the HS2 programme and is working as a Senior Director for Environmental Consents. An ICE Fellow, she is a Senior Vice President at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and President -Elect for 2023. Anusha is also a Non-Executive Director at the Met Office, UK and Visiting Professor at King’s College London and University of Edinburgh. She was awarded Honorary Professorship by University of Wolverhampton for Knowledge Transfer and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering by University of East London for her services to address Climate Change.

Anusha has over 22 years’ experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes both in the UK and internationally. She has been a chair and also a judge on various industry awards and competitions including OFWAT Water breakthrough Innovation fund challenge. A recipient of several awards including 2020 - Top 50 UK Women Engineers Sustainability and CECA – Inspiring Change Award, she was recognised by Climate Reframe as one of the UK’s leading BAME voices on climate change.

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Tan is a project manager with 7+ years of experience in project delivery roles. After making a big leap from the fashion industry to engineering she has successfully managed and is administering a variety of projects across the transport industry. Tan has also had the privilege of being nominated for several industry awards and securing a place on Skanska’s mirror leadership team. 

Having taken an unconventional route into the industry and experiencing the challenges many young women face within the industry, Tan is passionate about sharing her experiences to inspire others to give the industry a chance and for us all to learn what we can do better to ensure construction better reflects the diversity outside of our industry! 

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Chrisma Jain is a Chartered Engineer as well as Fellow for the (IMechE) Institute of Mechanical Engineering, (PWI) Permanent Way Institution and (WES) Women Engineering Society.

She is also a Trustee Board Director for the Women Engineering Society, Deputy President for The Permanent Way Institution as well as member of Council for the Institute of Mechanical Engineering.

In her current role, Chrisma is a Senior Project Manager at Transport for London and is delivering Signal Projects, removing Signaling obsolescence on the London Underground network. She has over 18 years of experience in the transport industry.

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Payal Debroy is an Engineering Geologist and has worked in Engineering for the last 15 years. Payal’s expertise is in analysing the ground conditions to enable construction of complex structures like tunnels, bridges, railways and high-rise buildings. She prepares models of the ground that provide important engineering information like strength, material parameters, geochemistry to inform the designs of these complex and challenging construction projects.

As well as being a Principal Geologist Engineer at COWI based in Scotland, Payal Debroy is a classical singer, dancer, stage artist and community volunteer - listen to the end to enjoy Payal’s beautiful voice!

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Era Shah is an award winning Chartered Civil Engineer based on Thames Tideway East, one of London's flagship projects with experience working on other major infrastructure projects with clients such as HS2, Crossrail and Network Rail.

Era is determined to promote and support industry platforms which celebrate women’s accomplishments, share the value of allyship and inspire students to pursue engineering as a career route. She does this through her role as Arkwright Engineering Scholarship mentor for sixth form scholars, through participating in many EDI led panel discussions such as at the London Build Expo, featuring in articles with The Guardian, Rail Media and Electronic Specifier and finally earlier this year made a call to action on BBC radio to encourage more girls into the engineering industry.

Click on the link for more details about the Arkwright Engineering Scholarships https://www.arkwright.org.uk/

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